President Xi noted that China and South Korea are close neighbours that cannot be moved away from each other in a telephone ...

The budget has a total outlay of Rs17.573 trillion (US$62 billion) and an ambitious 4.2 percent growth target.

JAKARTA – Despite a vast labor force, local businesses continue to struggle with hiring and retaining top talent. As the government looks to prohibit arbitrary practices like withholding employees’ ...

Snowfall in Asia's Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people dependent on snowmelt for water, scientists warned in a report yesterday. The ...

NEW YORK, United States — Boeing’s CEO confirmed Wednesday that China had stopped accepting new aircraft due to the US-China trade war, as the company’s shares surged following a smaller than expected ...

Headaches and Cigarettes: Conviction of North Korean spies reveals playbook of codes, signals The North Korean spy agency sent its instructions to the South Korean network online using steganography, ...

KATHMANDU – Southeast Asia has not been at the forefront of promoting human rights. In the case of the rights of indigenous peoples, the region’s record is even darker and more concerning. Among the ...

JAKARTA – Indonesia is planning to slash the targeted share of renewables in the national energy mix, a move seen by experts as a step back in the country’s ambition toward clean energy, while ...

JAKARTA – President Prabowo Subianto appointed 31 new envoys on Monday, consisting of career diplomats and political appointees, while still leaving several key positions vacant, prompting analysts to ...

TOKYO – The Japanese and U.S. governments have been looking to reorganize U.S. forces stationed in Japan to coincide with the launch of the Self-Defense Forces’ Joint Operations Command. However, ...

The investment is to be used for the construction of a 265-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle gas turbine power plant, which is slated to replace the coal units that were developed over 25 years ago.

NEW YORK – Two persimmon saplings, which were grown from the seeds of a tree that was exposed to the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, were planted at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday ...